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TAMMIE BLOOM, Editor
STAFF-THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Paddy Beahan; Copy editors, Roger Beidler, Nancy Gray; Assist
ants, Anita Oprendek, Barb Nicholls, Fran Fanucci, Betsy Gruneck, Ira Wasserman. Ad staff: • Linda
Holmes, Fred Schmidt, Enie Wolfgang.
Class Cut Policy: A Disregarded Ruling
The present cut policy of the University
needs one of two things, enforcement or definite
.revision.
• According to the Senate Regulations for
Undergraduate Students, each student is re
quired to attend every session of each class
he schedules. To be more simple, cuts are pro
hibited.
However, in practice, this regulation is re
vised by almost every professor on campus.
There are, of course, some professors who re
fuse to allow any absences. They penalize stu
dents either by deducting percentage points
from their final grade or by refusing to give
them "that extra break" when their mark is
hovering between a 0 and a 1 or a 1 and a 2.
These professors, however, seem to be in the
minority.
At the opposite extreme are the professors
who, the day of class, announce the exam
dates for the course and tell their classes: "As
long as you show up for these, I don't care if I
never see you." These professors compile no
seating charts and make no pretext of taking
class attendance.
Then there is the group between, the majority.
Some professors, as departmental policy, will
allow three cuts, without penalty, and will
penalize students for cuts above the maximum.
Others set the cut limit at two, four, six, or
higher, but they set some definite •limit. In ad
dition, some members of the faculty make a
policy of allowing - the student to cut as often
as you feel you can," with the stipulation that
the student will be warned if he over cuts.
There is still another group which falls into
this majority—those who either have no policy
On Ugly. Man
This week groups on campus are going all
out to promote their various candidates in the
annual Ugly Man, contest. The contest is a lot
of fun for everyone. The winning contestant
will receive an award and the group sponsoring
him, a trophy.
But behind all the fun and prizes there is
a much deeper meaning to the contest. The
money collected by the candidates will go to
the. Campus Chest. This money will then be
turned over to local and national charitable
organizations to further their work.
Students should remember this when giving
money to an Ugly Man. Who wins the contest
realy immaterial; it is where the money is
going that counts.
Therefore every student should give some
thing, no matter how little, to the man he thinks
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
camp Starlight will interview men and women
today in Old Main.
Meal jobs available at fraternities and campus
dining halls.
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Nancy Lee Thompson, Cecelia Poor, Marilyn
Junior Men's
Hat Groups
Accept 48
Forty-eight fourth and fifth se
mester men were tapped yesterday
and this morning by Androcles
and Blue Key, junior men's hat
societies.
Androcles tappees are Norman
Miller. Donald Ziegler, Dean Ves
ling, Gordon Pogal, Phillip Wein,
Edwin Tooker, Francis Taylor,
Philip Steal, Vernon Sones, Earl
Seely, Richard Rubenstein, Mi
chael Rosenfeld, James Parmiter.
David Morrow, Louis Adler,
Hugh Cline, Sheldon Brown, Wil
liam Duff, Daniel Van Duyne,
Douglas Finnemore, Charles Fol
kers, Leroy Harris, Stuart Horn,
Joseph Hayes, Howard Levine,
Stanley Juras, Peter Kiefer, Bruce
Lieske, John Lyon, George Ying
ling, and Marvin Jackson. Blue
Keyt tapped at 7:30 a.m. today at
the Lion's Shrine.
• Tapped were Gerald Huston,
Robert Eisenhuth, Robert McMil
lan, John Russell, Roger Beidrer,
James Bowers, Richard Seng, Ed
ward Miller, Philip Beard, Ron
ald Lynch, John Hess, Leo Park
ett, John Thalimer, Lynn Meyers,
Senford Lichtenstein, Frank Nor
ris, and Sol Cohn.
Present members of Blue Key
attended a banquet last night in
the•Eutaw House.
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viewpoint of the writers,
not necessarily the policy of
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atter July 5, 1934 at the ,State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1819.
—Mike Miller
Gazette .
71 Students Get
High Test Scores
Seventy-one students who took
the National Teachers Examin
ation in February had high scores,
according to Hugh Davison, pro
fessor of educational, research.
Elementary education students
stood above 86 per cent of other
competitors. Students taking the
early ,- ..hildhood study examination
scored 71 per cent ahead of the
other competition, as did those
competing in physical education.
The physical scientists came
out ix. front of 73 per cent of the
group, mathematicians led 63 per
cent of their competitors, and so
cial studies students were ahead
by 66 per cent. •
WD Council Awards
Toe Somers, former Association
of Independent Men president,
and Richard Oswald, eighth se
mester electrical engineering ma
jor, received awards at the annual
West Dorm Council banquet
Wednesday night.
Somers received •an award for
his all-around activities and Os
wald for high scholarship.
Androcles members who were
given Orientation Week counsel
ing agreements should return
these to Thomas Kidd, member
ship chairman; or one of the pre
sent officers of the hat society,
Kidd announced.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA,
FRANK CHESSMAN. Business Mgr.
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at all on cuts or, if they do, believe in keeping
students in the dark about it. In courses under
'these professors, the student isn't sure just
where 'he stands, and has no apparent way of
finding, out.
The- wide discrepancies in our present cut
system and its enforcement benefit no one and
harm everyone. Keeping a regulation which is
not enforced seems absurd. A professor may
get the reputation of being either a "snap" and
a real good guy or "an old crank" and someone
to avoid when registration rolls around.
The students suffer, too. They are sorely
tempted to schedule, as often as possible, those
professors who do allow frequent or unlimited
cuts, and to avoid those who do not, without
considering the quality of education involved.
The absurdity of the present situation can be
best exemplified by the case of two coeds,
roommates, who are taking the same course,
this semester, from two different professors.
They take nearly the same bluebooks and will
take a departmental final. They use the same
textbook and cover the same material. One is
allowed unlimited cuts; the other is allowed
two, and her grade will suffer if she takes
more. Situations like these have no place in a
well-run University.
Whether the present -+fficial policy should be
enforced, whether students should be allowed
a definite number of cuts in all courses, or
'whether students should be allowed unlimited
cuts in all courses is not the most important
problem. The present confusion is.
The best solution to the problem is to define
and enforce a cut policy throughout the Uni
versity.
Safety Valve---
Defends Freshmen
TO THE EDITOR: I don't believe Anita Opren
dek (referring to an editorial in Saturday's
issue) has quite the right slant on freshman
spirit. Our spirit is not measured by how many
people know of the dance we are sponsoring,
or for that matter how many people try out for
the talent show.
How can freshmen be expected to know of
the class dance when only $2O was alotted for
publicity? Compare this to the $l2O the junior
class spent on Junior Prom publicity and how
fax does $2O go? It's a wonder even 24 of 66
women knew of the dance.
Fortunately the talent show and the dance
were a success.
—Steven Jordan
Chairman, Decorations Committee,
Freshman'Class Dancer
Crowley, Jane Mason, Patricia Ellis, Anita Isen
berg, Myrtle Brown, Richard Blank, Thomas
Schwarz, Daniel HutchinSon, George Walker,
• Edward Patrick, John Strahle, Howard Down
ing, Philip Lang, Thomas . Glenn, John Pine,
Joseph - Durek, James McLean, John Shaynak,
and Thomas OsenbaCh.
AIM Board. Gives
Student Probation
The Association of Independent
Men's, judicial board of review
has recommended that a fourth
semester student be placed on
board probation for his part in a
Nittany area dorrriitory fracas
which resulted in a door being
damaged.
Three second semester students
also involved in the incident were
given suspended sentences. Board
probation entails that the student
must be present at all meetings
of the board for the remainder
of the semester.
Paper was tacked to the door
and set afire. The door had to be
refinished.
Chem-Phys Council
Names Coed Head
Barbara Foss, sixth semester
science major, was elected presi
dent of the Chem-Phys Student
Council Wednesday night. Miss
Foss is the first woman elected
president of this'council.
Other officers elected are Roger
Uhler, sixth semester chemistry
major, vice president; and William
Childs, fourth semester chemical
engineering major, secretary
treasurer.
Little - Man of -Canittins
"Jus' lookit—lf there's anything I can't stand, it's a ShovrOff'VE-
Conference Speaker
—Ann Leh
By PHYLLIS PROPERT
Governor John S. Fine said yesterday he will include a 'strong
recommendation for the establishment of a State. Recreation Commi,s
sion in his farewell message as Governor to the General Assembly
next January.
"I am convinced the creation of such a commission would provide
Pennsylvania with an administra
tive agency that would coordinate
all state efforts in the field of
recreation for the purpose of de
veloping an effective state policy
and program on the conservation
of our human as well as natural
resources," Fine said. •
Aporoxiinately .300 delegates. to
the seventh annual Pennsylvania
Recreation Conference heard Gov
ernor Fine . speak at a luncheon
meeting at the Nittany Lion Inn.
The governor told his aud- .
ience he understood. the State •
Recreation ouncil •intends
resubmit the` proposal of such a
commission at the next . session •;.
of the General Assembly. Such
a proposal had been submitted
in the session, Fine said,
but it died in committee.
.Pennsylvania will never adopt
the::role of enforcing administra
tive uniformity in recreation ,or
consolidation in supervision, Fine'
Said. The. place of the Common
wealth.. he said, is, cooperative
with private groups, supplying
such f or ms of assistance .where
necessary.
In 1951, Fine 'said, a comprehen
sive survey was made of.` the
ComniOnwealth's recreational bus
inesses. It was discovered, he said,
that nearly $800,000,000. was.
pended in travel and recreation
during that year. He said•recrea
tion, travel, and, vacation enter- .
prise rank as the ninth commer
cial activity of Pennsylvania.
Fine told the delegates they ,
were working for the "rounded
personality of our ambitious
youth growing up in an age
where security is a mere hope."
"In - the human equation of
things, recreation is underscored
in importance for its' relations
to leisure time activities," he
said.
Crediting the machine with giv
ing Americans time for recreation,
Fine said if leisure should lead
only to being bored it would be
a national tragedy
~ indeed.
"Leisure, we are reminded, is
the seed-bed of national culture
as well as of personal develop
ment," he said.
One of the greatest probleMs of
modern society is individual lone
liness, Fine said. Loneliness, he
said, is partly due to the fact that
leisure time becomes a period of
lostness.
Every child in the Common
wealth has approximately 3000
hours of leisure time dur
ing the course of a year, he said.
An adequate recreational policy
Fine Advocates .
Rec Commission
FRIDAY, MAY' 7.. 1954
By Bibler
is imperative, he said, if juven
ile delinquency is to be checked. •
The well-being of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, Fine said,
is ultimately the sum total of the
well-being possessed in spirit,
mind, and body by our fellow cit
izens throughout the state.
C. S. Wyand, executive assis
tant to President Milton S. Eisen
hower, welcomed the delegates
on behalf of President Eisenhower
who was out of town.
Leo Weinrott, chairman of the
State Recreation Council, intro
dUced Fine as a man Who was
deeply interested in recreational
problems. -
Governor Fine had come by
plane from_Chicago to the Uni
versity yeserday ' morning, .He
had addressed 35 charity agencies
Wednesday in Chicago. • .
He left the University shortly
after his address.: 'for Luzerne
'County. He was scheduled to give,
three more - SPeeche.s yesterday, of-,
ter he'left the University: :
Koster to Head
Fioth .Copy Staff
Betty Koster, fourth semester
journalism major, has been named
to, hdad the newly organized. Froth
copy staff. The staff has been 'cre
ated to handle copy reading, "Old
Mania.", Office work, and other
miscellaneous., tasks. It replaces
the promotion staff.
Rhoda. Resneck and Ruth Klu
ger Were - named to the senior
board of the promotion staff. ..
Named to the junior board were
Naney-Ree% Nell Malmrosh, Doro
thea Kalays;-:Jerry Weiner, Harris
Sklar; Richard - Wolfman, Barbara
Horn, and Donald Chalmers.
Named to the sophomore board
were Mary Ann Gbur, Gail Le
pine;' Joanne Reis, Ilse Schuman,
Judith Smith, Maryann Paletta,
Janke Karp, and Sarah Sykes.
IA Dean to Speak
Ben Euwema, dean of the Col
lege of the Liberal Arts, will speak
at an Engineering • 3 lecture - .at
4:10 p.m. Monday in 110 Electrical
Engineering.
Tonight on WDFM
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